ODSC's AI Weekly Recap: Week of July 12th
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Every week, the ODSC team researches the latest advancements in AI for this AI Weekly Recap. We review a selection of the most impactful research, trending open-source projects, and significant startup investments. We carefully curate and share the most impactful developments, bringing the insights that matter most to the AI and data science community. Subscribe to get this as a newsletter sent to your inbox every Friday!
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AI News Highlights
California considers unique safety regulations for AI companies, but faces tech firm opposition
Microsoft AI Deal With UAE’s G42 at Risk Over National Security Fears
Google will now generate disclosures for political ads that use AI
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care
Job scams surged 118% in 2023, aided by AI. Here’s how to stop them
Exclusive: U.S. Voters Value Safe AI Development Over Racing Against China, Poll Shows
Two self-driving car guys take on OpenAI’s Sora, Kling, and Runway to be Hollywood’s favorite AI
China leads the world in adoption of generative AI, survey shows
Army Advocates Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Soldiers as Other Services Are Hesitant
Scoop: Ted Cruz probes tech money funding Biden AI staff
New Trending Open Source Projects
Beautiify comprises a curated selection of beautifully designed components and animations that can be seamlessly incorporated into any website, elevating its overall UI experience.
DevBrute - A versatile password brute forcing tool designed to tackle a wide range of Social Media accounts and Web Applications. With its robust capabilities, it's adept at breaking through various security barriers.
Open DBM is a tool for measurement of digital biomarkers from video or audio of an individual’s behavior.
Thor is a Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery
Pythonista_ForAll is a compiled Repository dedicated to cool python scripts and hacks for everyone
New Trending Research From Around The Globe
OMG-LLaVA: Bridging Image-level, Object-level, Pixel-level Reasoning and Understanding - Paper
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Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas - Paper
MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation - Paper
Robust Neural Information Retrieval: An Adversarial and Out-of-distribution Perspective - Paper
Gait Patterns as Biomarkers: A Video-Based Approach for Classifying Scoliosis - Paper
Training-free CryoET Tomogram Segmentation - Paper
ANOLE: An Open, Autoregressive, Native Large Multimodal Models for Interleaved Image-Text Generation - Paper
Start-Up Funding News
Pennsylvania-based Skild AI, a startup that develops software to power various robots, raised $300M in Series A
New York-based Hebbia, developer AI agents for financial services firms, raised $130M in Series B
New York-based Captions, an AI-powered creative studio developing a video creation and editing platform for content creation, raised $100M in Series C
Boston-based Gradient AI, which leverages AI to provide risk assessment tools that help underwriters make more accurate and data-driven decisions, raised $36M in Series Funding
New York-based Canoe, develops an AI technology to help alternative investment firms streamline their data management processes, raised $36M in Series C
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